“Don’t Say You Represent the Students”
Republican politicians may no longer be the loudest critics of teachers unions. Influential…
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Unfunded OPEB Liabilities for Oregon Public Employers: A $2.6 Billion Time Bomb
By William Newell with John Glennon and Brandon Maxwell Most Oregon taxpayers are…
Read Blog DetailReport Shows Oregon Public Employment Contracts Are a Ticking Time Bomb
PORTLAND, Ore. – Cascade Policy Institute today announced the release of a new…
Read Blog DetailEducation Savings Accounts Should Be in Oregon’s School Choice Future
School choice is widespread in America, including in Oregon—unless you are poor. Affluent…
Read Blog DetailHow Do Children Learn? Let Us Count the Ways
“I wish that the education system could understand that not every child fits into the same sized box, and everyone needs to do what is right for their family,” says Lisa, a Portland-area mother whose children receive tuition assistance from the Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland.
Read Blog Detail2015’s Forward-Looking Celebration of School Choice
Next week is National School Choice Week. Every January, National School Choice Week…
Read Blog DetailScaling Down: The Power of One
Last fall I had the pleasure of attending the awards ceremony for the Broad Prize for Urban Education. In the ensuing days, many bloggers and journalists weighed in with criticism, including one who pointed out that “although recent winners of the Broad Prize show positive results compared to many large urban districts, their scores are largely flat—or worse—over the past several years.”
Read Blog DetailEqual Outcome Is the Wrong Goal
In Governor Kitzhaber’s final inaugural address this week, he focused on the themes of equality and community. Specifically, he wants to reduce the gap between rich and poor. He also believes that only through collective action can we achieve that goal.
Read Blog DetailImagine a World…2015
Imagine a world where we buy our groceries in government stores. We can only shop at the store nearest our house. If we want to shop somewhere else, we’re forced to move our family into another neighborhood―if we can afford it.
Read Blog DetailThe Regime Trembles at the Sight of a Smartphone
“The regime trembles at the sight of a smartphone.”* That quote comes from Portland-based independent journalist and world traveler Michael J. Totten. One might guess that he wrote it about Portland’s city government and its aversion to ridesharing services like Uber that rely on smartphone apps to put riders and drivers together. But he didn’t.
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